Wastewater overflow floods at Greenbelt WSSC station

Residents in the 8000 block of Mandan Road in Greenbelt got a smelly surprise Sunday morning when a sanitation sewer valve broke and pumped 100,000 gallons of wastewater into the area.

The sanitary sewer overflow occurred after a valve broke on a discharge pipeline at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Greenbriar Wastewater Pumping Station, located at 8021 Mandan Road in Greenbelt. According to WSSC spokeswoman Lyn Riggins, the water was leaked into an unnamed tributary that leads to Beaverdam Creek.

"In a matter of speaking, [the tributary] is almost like a ditch. It's a very small area that it went into, and it's unlikely that it made it into Beaverdam Creek," Riggins said. Go to full article